On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:06 -0400, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:20, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Mostly it is a matter of having the permissions for the program > > to be something like 755 if owned by root. > > Let me see if I understand this correctly, if I give an executable > owned by root a permission 775 then any member of the root group > would be able to use that executable same as root. Is that > correct? With permissions 750 only root and member of the root group could run this program. > > How would I set up a GUI front end (for a command line executable > that can only be run by root) so that a password dialog comes > requesting the root password? I suspect the asking for the root passwd is a function of the program run not its permissions. -- ======================================================================= A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
